corduroy

vakosametti

rakentaa kapulatie

kapulatie A heavy fabric, usually made of cotton, with vertical ribs.
(quote-book)
To make (a road) by laying down split logs or tree-trunks over a marsh, swamp etc.
1886, Ulysses S. Grant, s:Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant|Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, s:Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant/Chapter LIII|chapter 53

The night was very dark and it rained heavily, the roads were so bad that the troops had to cut trees and corduroy the road a part of the way, to get through.

But Sherman organized “pioneer battalions” of soldiers and freedmen ... to cut saplings and trees to corduroy the roads, build bridges, and construct causeways.